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Black-banded honey bee
Apis nigrocincta
Specimen No. 03
Apis nigrocincta
Mindanao (Philippines) and Sulawesi and Sangihe (Indonesia)
- Where
- Mindanao (Philippines) and Sulawesi and Sangihe (Indonesia)
- Group
- Honey bees
- Fact
- A cavity-nesting cousin of the eastern honey bee whose queens mate more often than those of any other honey bee. Wikipedia
Apis nigrocincta queens have the highest mating frequencies of any honey bee species. Wikipedia